Mia Ardito and Máire Witt O’Neill will be releasing the fourth season of their video series SadGirlsClub TV this summer. A satire of popular network shows, SGCtv bends the gender and subverts the genre to explore the cultural demonization and celebration of women presented as behaving real “badly” on reality TV.

In previous seasons, SGCtv episodes have lived as the left over internet ephemera of an imaginary reality television show. This season the SadGirls are transplanted from the safety of their private world in the “SadGirls’ House,” Maryland and Brooklyn respectively, to the public and real world of Rockville Centre, LI—a hotel, a local nightclub, a 7Eleven, Jones Beach. SGCtv 4 delves deeper into the layers of reality and exposes captured elements of the improvisational process of the artists and the simultaneous roles they play--director, performer, character, person. Rich with the language of capitalism and unauthorized branded content, the visual nature of SGCtv is just as layered as the narrative. The show is both an addictive reality TV series and a documentary of itself. This constructed reality butts up against the real issues of on-location filming thus composing the narrative arc of the 6 new half-hour episodes.

The summer of SGCtv will kick off with a Meet the Sad Girls Party on June 4th at The Wu Room under the Wyndam Garden Hotel on Hester and Bowery. The party will be hosted by the Sad Girls and include screenings of their introductory cast videos, teaser clips, special musical guest and a dance party to follow.

The season will be released with more screening events at the Wu Room throughout July concluding in a live reunion show. Season 4 will also be released online at sadgirlsclubtv.com where you can catch up on previous seasons.